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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2472244, member: 19463&quot;]<span style="color: #ff0000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000">&quot;I&#039;ll bet you&#039;ll get more fun out of a used high quality Nikon or B&amp;L scope than adding another coin to your collection.&quot;</span></p><p>Without the needless overtones, I certainly agree with this one.&nbsp; There is no need for a high quality scope to see and enjoy.&nbsp; What is needed is a stereo microscope of the quality sold on eBay for relatively low prices.&nbsp; Mono (2D) scopes including those with binocular eyepieces are much less useful and much less fun usually being too powerful to give a good overview of the clues to be seen.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is nothing wrong with dealers providing a submission service to NGC and nothing wrong with such dealers telling their customers that it is their opinion that a coin is likely to come back as a fake.&nbsp; What is wrong is if that dealer is looking at the coin and providing an opinion that the coin is certified in any way by NGC.&nbsp; A dealer who mails off coins to NGC could be as expert as Mssrs. Vagi and Murphy but that dealer&#039;s opinions are in no way NGC.&nbsp; If he is suggesting that he speaks for NGC, I would like to see how NGC feels about that representation.&nbsp; I suspect there are a thousand people out there whose authenticity opinions would agree with those of NGC on 99% of coins they see (grading agreement would be less).&nbsp; They must limit themselves to offering their opinions in their own name without insinuations that they are more than just that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please be aware of a wonderful feature of Coin Talk software.&nbsp; If you click on a member&#039;s name the box that appears includes an option to Ignore.&nbsp; Selecting this will remove posts from that person from your future displays.&nbsp; I encourage those of you who find me or someone else posting here offensive to make use of this feature.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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